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Millions of mind guerillas Words are
flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, Christianity will go. It will vanish and
shrink. I needn't argue about that, I'm right and will be proved
right. We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know
which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all
right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting
it that ruins it for me. Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes, |
Across the Universe midi |
You have to do it
yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been
saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts
and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and
worshipped for the cover of the book and not what it says; but the
instructions are there for all to see, have always been you.
John Lennon
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and
the stars and the sun.
John Lennon
Laurel and Hardy, that's John and
Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the
serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got
shot.
John Lennon
I Wandered
On balmy sea and pernie schooners
On strivers and warming things
In a peanut coalshed clad
I wandered happy as a jew
To meet good Doris King.
Past grisby trees and hulky builds
Past ratters and bradder sheep
In a resus baby stooped
I wandered hairy as a dog
To get a goobites sleep
Down hovey lanes and stoney claves
Down ricketts and sticklys myth
In a fatty hebrew gurth
I wandered humply as a sock
To meet bad Bernie Smith.
John Lennon
I'd go through
periods of panic, because I was not in Billboard or being seen at
Studio 54 with Mick and Bianca. I mean, I didn't exist anymore. And I
realized there was a life without it. I thought, "This reminds me
of being 15!" I didn't have to write songs at 15. I wrote if I
wanted to. That's when I suddenly could do it again with ease. All the
songs that are on Double Fantasy all came within a period of 3 weeks.
John Lennon
If everyone
demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be
peace.
John Lennon
We've been on
our peace gig, as we call it, for a year solid. And people say, "Do
you think it's having any effect?" I can't answer that. It's like
asking me in the Cavern, "Are you gonna make it?" In the back of
my mind I thought, I'm gonna make it, but I couldn't lay it on the
line. And I think that peace is more tangible than Beatles.
John Lennon
Now, in the
sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their
rooms, and said, "We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers
and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and
beautiful all the time," and just like babies everyone went back to
their rooms and sulked. "We're going to stay in our rooms and play
rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a horrible
place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for." Right?
John Lennon
It just was a gradual development over the
years. I mean last year was "all you need is Love." This year,
it's "all you need is Love and peace, baby." Give peace a chance,
and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets
violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull
together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't
need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out
there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace,
and you'll get it as soon as you like.
John
Lennon
More quotes from John Lennon at Wikiquote
In late dynastic times there is no doubt
that Nit was regarded as nothing but a form of Hathor, but at an
earlier period she was certainly a personification of a form of the great,
inert, primeval watery mass out of which sprang the sun god Ra ...
Budge, EA Wallis, The Gods of the Egyptians
According to the Iunyt (Esna) cosmology the goddess
emerged from the primeval waters to create the world. She then followed
the flow of the Nile northward to found Zau in company with the
subsequently venerated lates-fish. There are much earlier references to
Nit's association with the primordial flood-waters and to her demiurge: Amenhotep II (Dynasty XVIII) in one
inscription is the pharaoh 'whose being Nit moulded'; the papyrus (Dynasty XX) giving the
account of the struggle between Horus and Set mentions
Nit 'who illuminated the first face' and in the sixth century BC the
goddess is said to have invented birth.
Hart, George, A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods
and Goddesses
Peace the sailor prays, caught in a
storm on the open Aegean, when dark-clad clouds have hid the moon and the
stars shine no longer certain.
Horace (Quintus Horatius
Flaccus), Roman writer, born on December 8, 65 BCE, Ode II-XVI 'Otium'
Add a
sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Horace
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild
oats.
Horace
Be this
our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow
pale at no accusation.
Horace
Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their
waning.
Horace
Despise
not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
Horace
As
we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible
in the morrow.
Horace; Odes, Book I, Ode xi, line 8
My
friend, don't even ask. Don't ask the fortuneteller
or the haruspice to tell you how long you have to live.
Don't ask about me, either. Better not to know.
Better just to take each day as it is given to us,
it makes no difference if there are many more to follow,
or if this is the last year we will see the ocean
throw itself against the nearby cliffs. Be sensible:
drink a little wine; do not look too far ahead.
Even as we talk, time is running past.
Reap the harvest of today, and let it be enough.
Horace
More quotes by Horace
The bodily shape of the heavenly
Queen was well proportioned and taller than is usual with other maidens of
her age; yet extremely elegant and perfect in all its parts. Her face was
rather more oblong than round, gracious and beautiful, without leanness or
grossness; its complexion clear, yet of a slightly brownish hue; her
forehead spacious yet symmetrical; her eyebrows perfectly arched; her eyes
large and serious, of incredible and ineffable beauty and dovelike
sweetness, dark in color with a mixture tending toward green; her nose
straight and well shaped; her mouth small, with red-colored lips, neither
too thin nor too thick. All the gifts of nature in Her were so symmetrical
and beautiful, that no other human being ever had the like.
Description of Mary from Blessed Mary of Agreda, The Mystical City
of God, Pt II, Bk 3, Ch. 2
Source: The
Face of Our Mother?
The Blessed Virgin had auburn hair,
dark eyebrows, fine and arched, a very high forehead, large downcast eyes
with long, dark lashes, a straight nose, delicate and rather long, a
lovely mouth around which played a most noble expression, and a pointed
chin.
Description of Mary from Emmerich, Anne Catherine, The Life of Jesus
Christ and Biblical Revelations, Vol. I, p. 198 Source: The Face of Our
Mother?
Some American writers who have known
each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were
sober.
James Thurber, American cartoonist and humorist, born
on December 8, 1894
It is
better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward
in fear but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
There
is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you
so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take
part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the
wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it
stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people
who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from
working at all!
Mario Savio, Free
Speech Movement co-founder, born on December 8, 1942;
speech delivered at Sproul Plaza, UCLA,
December 3,
1964
I think of myself as an intelligent,
sensitive human being with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to
blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison, Doors singer, born on
December 8, 1943
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything
else is just ... in between. I want the freedom to try everything.
Jim Morrison
I think I was just fed up with the image that had been created around me,
which I sometimes consciously, most of the time unconsciously cooperated
with. It just got too much for me to really stomach and so I put an end to
it one glorious evening.
Jim Morrison
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade
in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give
up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be
any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an
individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
Jim Morrison
When you make peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison
Out here on the perimeter; We is stoned, immaculate.
Jim Morrison
December 8 is the 342nd day
of the year in the Gregorian calendar (343rd
in leap years), with 23
days remaining.
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Festival of Neith, ancient Egypt
In Egyptian mythology,
Neith was a psychopomp and a
creation deity, a personification of the primeval waters. The beautiful but fierce predynastic
goddess of war and weaving was the goddess
of the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and the patron goddess of Zau (Sau, Sai, Sais) in the Delta, whose temple was at
Sais
on the Nile.
Ancient tradition held that the city of Sais was founded by the Greeks before the Great Flood, and Greeks were treated kindly when in this city. As the mother of Ra, the Egyptians believed her to be connected with the god of the watery primeval void, Nun. Shrouds worn by the mummified deceased were said to be gifts from Neith. She was often portrayed holding a set of bow and arrows, occasionally a harpoon.
She was linked to with a number of goddesses including Nephthys, Isis, Bast, Wadjet, Nekhbet, Mut, Anouke and Sekhmet. As a cow, she was linked to both Nut and Hathor. She was also linked to Tatet, the goddess who dressed the dead, and was thus linked to preservation of the dead. Her son, other than the sun god Ra, was believed to be Sobek, the crocodile god. She was regarded as his mother from early times – the two were mentioned as mother and son in the pyramid of Unas – and one of her titles was 'Nurse of Crocodiles'. She was also regarded, during the Old Kingdom, as the wife of Set, though by later times this relationship was dropped and she became the wife of Sobek instead. In Upper Egypt she was married to the inundation god, Khnum, instead.
At Banebdjetet's request, she interceded in the war between Horus and Set over the Egyptian throne, recommending that Horus should rule.
By Greek times there was a great annual festival in honour of Isis-Nit. Part of the festival, recorded by Herodotus, said that the people lit their houses with lamps and torches that were fuelled by oil mixed with salt. The lamps and torches were kept burning until the morning, while the people themselves feasted. The virgin priestesses of the Temple of Neith engaged in armed combat each year for the position of High Priestess.
Neith was considered by the Greeks to be Athena. The planet Venus was once thought to have a moon, which was called Neith.
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